Richard Tindall wrote:
Rereading my email with the benefit of hindsight showed a dearth of smilies. They should have been there, sorry (:Thanks Steve, an important insight.
Steve Holdoway wrote:
Neither. You would never[1] use a general purpose tool for a single specific task like this. Use embedded technology, based on linux, and solid state storage.
Steve [1] If in your right mind!
In terms of career options in touting full online Linux security, it seems to leave just two options:
a) Learn more C and seek cowork with (embedded) hardware designers.
b) Career change.
Good Plan Bs are always important.
Cheers, Rik
I'd prototype everything on any old pc under a full copy of linux, then throw away all the bits you don't want, and then embed the result in the right hardware to give you acceptable restart times. The result is pretty indestructable, and it requires minimal programming skills, just a clear head and a sound knowledge of administration tasks. It's also something you can perfect iteratively, getting bits to work one at a time - and that's how I learn most these days.
It will also have other advantages... low power consumption and no moving parts --> long life and reliability spring to mind.
I've had people telling me that *nix is dead for the last 20 years... maybe one day they'll be right. I don't know about you but I'm too old to change now!
Cheers,
Steve
